Did you know that people with ADHD are at greater risk of developing chronic illness? Having a chronic illness impacts ADHD and ADHD impacts chronic illness. Having ADHD makes consistent performance more difficult because of impaired executive functions: remembering details, making choices, establishing self-supportive habits, organizing information, planning. Adding in a chronic illness, which also makes consistent performance difficult is a double whammy for many with ADHD. In the presentation, we discuss how you can better manage your ADHD in order to improve chronic illness health outcomes by making changes in your habits, via tracking and by talking to and advocating with your healthcare providers.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will learn what current research indicates about the interaction of ADHD and chronic illness.
- Participants will have a better understanding of the impact that ADHD has on the management of chronic illness.
- Participants will have specific takeaways that allow them to take action to advance their health through better ADHD management in the context of chronic illness.
Course Features
- Lectures 3
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 62 minutes
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 39
- Assessments Yes
1 Comment
I attended this webinar and learned so much, in fact it was hard to absorb it all which is why I want to listen to it again! I also didn’t know in advance that we were getting a link for a copy of the slides so I was trying to take pictures of the slides because they had so much information on them! I stopped when I finally asked if we were getting any print outs!
Also I was frustrated that we couldn’t save the chat text because there were many links that would have been nice to keep as well as people were trying to figure out how to form a follow up support group for ourselves because there were many interested in doing that. Now we lost that connection to each other, I think, unless ADDA can provide that for us.
I think this webinar pointed out an obvious need that there are many people that are suffering with many different chronic illnesses as well as ADHD, but all are struggling, and a support group makes a lot of sense!!